Manolo says, here is the Manolo’s latest column for the Express of the Washington Post. Dear Manolo, I am a mom with active preschool and toddle-aged children, plus a babe in arms. I’m also building an at home business. My primary market is other moms, so I am often meeting potential customers while I’m out and about with the kids. I need to find a shoe that say pulled-together mom/successful business woman that can be worn to the park or zoo. Did I mention that I’m 5’4” and have wide feet? Laura Manolo says, it is lamentable, but the only…

Manolo says, here is the Manolo’s latest column for the Express of the Washington Post. Dear Manolo, I will be starting my new job as a children’s librarian next month, and my question is, how do you remain super fantastic while dealing with grubby little hands, gluesticks, crayons, and puppet shows? Annabelle Manolo says, back in the day, the stereotype of the librarian was of the humorless crone with the hair-trigger “Shsssssss”. After that, it was the secretly hot librarian lady, the one who (from the lofty perch of her library ladder) removed her cat-eye glasses and let her auburn…

Manolo says, this is unprecedented! The Manolo actually likes this shoe from the Irregular Choice, and believes that it could be worn to good effect by the right super fantastic girl. In the past, the Manolo has found the shoes of the Irregular Choice to be too oppressively, self-consciously Hello-Kitty kwaii. While others have found that they may well provide the grounds for going to law. But this shoe above is funky in the good way, and is not burdened by the piling on of the “whimsical” doody-crap. Still, this is not to say that it is not without its…